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Mea culpa, Lord Bingham | Joshua Rozenberghttp://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/sep/07/rule-of-law-tom-bingham
The first of the Guardian Law book club's choices will probably define "the rule of law" for a century. But the lecture it was based on went almost unnoticed<p>In November 2006, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/sep/11/lord-bingham-of-cornhill-obituary" title="">Lord Bingham</a> delivered an academic paper called <a href="http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past_activities/the_rt_hon_lord_bingham_the_rule_of_law.php" title="">The Rule of Law</a>. Disappointingly for the then senior law lord, &quot;the legal correspondents of the leading newspapers largely ignored the lecture&quot;. Fortunately, though, in a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/nov/25/comment.law" title="">column</a> written a week later for the Guardian, Martin Kettle recognised its considerable importance.</p><p>Perhaps Kettle's article caught the eye of Penguin Books. It was they who persuaded Bingham to expand his lecture into the short volume from which I have taken the quotation in the previous paragraph. Bingham delivered his manuscript as promised and found it hard to understand why the publishers waited another year before bringing it out. They, in turn, were no doubt unfamiliar with authors who met deadlines.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/sep/07/rule-of-law-tom-bingham">Continue reading...</a>LawThomas BinghamHuman rightsJudiciaryBooksWed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/sep/07/rule-of-law-tom-binghamDavid Levene/David LeveneAfter his retirement as senior law lord, Bingham criticised the Iraq war as "a serious violation of international law". Photograph: David LeveneChris Young/PALord Bingham stands outside Balliol, his former College in OxfordJoshua Rozenberg2011-09-07T14:07:00Z